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Demographic and Health Surveys
An 'X' indicates the category is available for that sample
| Code | Label |
sud
89
|
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khartoum | X |
| 2 | Northern | X |
| 3 | Eastern | X |
| 4 | Central | X |
| 5 | Kordofan | X |
| 6 | Darfur | X |
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GEO_SD1989 (V101_SD1989) indicates the region of Sudan where the respondent was interviewed. DHS regions in the 1989 Sudan survey are equivalent to states and groups of states.
A GIS map for GEO_SD1989 (in shapefile format) can be downloaded from the DHS Program Spatial Data Repository Boundaries page.
The 1989 survey of Sudan excludes Bahr El Ghazal, Equatoria, and Upper Nile - all of which are in present day South Sudan.
GEO_ SD1989 (V101_SD1989) is a country- and sample-specific variable and has no comparability issues.
Comparability - Standard DHS
GEO_ SD1989, like other V101 variables, is a geographic variable added during processing of the DHS data. V101 is included in all Phases of the DHS.
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